Could 'sprites' explain some UFO sightings ?

Maybe I missed the connection while reading the full article, but how does Sprites high in the atmosphere account for some UFO sightings?

Maybe I missed the connection while reading the full article, but how does Sprites high in the atmosphere account for some UFO sightings? My guess is aircraft pilots. There had been plenty of reports from pilots seeing what is described as these sprites. It may account for some of those reports.

people have known about sprites for some time now. they don't last very long ( a second or 2 at most ) and over storms you can see a few. I don't see how anyone could mistake them for UFO's. video http://www.livescience.com/common/media/vi...f=080607sprites

First Estimates Developed Of Lightning-Associated "Sprites" Radio signals help scientists estimate how many occur in thunderstorms April 2, 1999 For the first time, scientists have developed a reliable estimate of the number of "sprites" spawned by a single thunderstorm. Sprites, the luminous red glows that are the high altitude companions of some lightning strikes, are the focus of a new study by researchers Steven Reising of the University of Massachusetts, and Umran Inan and Timothy Bell of Stanford University in California. The team's findings appear in the April 1 issue of Geophysical Res... [More]

Nothing to do with ufo sightings, This is a natuyral phenomena and lasts only seconds at very high altitudes, Mostly above the clouyds, So no this has nothing to do with ufo sightings form the thousamds upon thousaands of reports each year,

people just pull stuff out of their asses...clearly not even close to resembling ufo reports

this sounds kind of like the whole "swamp gas" explaination for UFOs how would a pilot mistake a fraction-of-a-second flash of light as a UFO? 0___0